Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Adds Option to Ban Weapons

August 5th 2015, was an exciting and interesting day if you are a fan of both eSports and the Call of Duty series. During todays Gamescom press conference, Activision revealed information about their newest eSport features, "Specialist Draft" and "Ban and Protect". Both aimed at giving players more control over their playing experience.

Geared more towards the tournament and arena players, Specialist Draft is made available during the pre-match selection process. This new system adds a restriction on the number of Specialist abilities used in a match. When one player chooses an ability, they will become the only one on their team that will have access to it throughout the entire match. This will encourage teams to use a little more strategy when preparing for battle. Ban and Protect on the other hand, will be available in both private and competitive matches. Players will receive the ability to vote on which guns, perks, and scorestreaks to either ban or protect before the start of each match. This feature will give both professional and private tournament holders the power to change the way the game is played based on their own tournament guidelines. Further adding to the strategy needed to win and succeed.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 is set to release on November 6th this year on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC.

How do the members of Se7enSins feel about these new additions to the game? Will this help provide a more fair and balanced experience? Leave your thoughts and comments below.

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Someone is gonna pick a really good item and only they can use it. People can troll using this. Or if your whole team has a mic, tell them to pick things that no one is gonna use so this system wont apply during the match

Great job Treyarch, Vonderhaar is doing good until some flaw is released in bo3, then he will take years to fix it. Hopefully when it's released there's not as many mods and lobbies out there as there was with ghosts, because that got crazy fast. But it's 3arc not IW, so keep our hopes up until you have a reason to let them down. Competitive gaming is fantastic and I am loving the advance it is having.

I think that is the stupidest comment I have heard yet about this. If you dont care about the growth of eSports you go play ghosts. We needed something like this. We need to follow in the footsteps of LoL and Dota. The bans and protects is a new strat, just go play 6v6 dom and you will be fine. So stupid.

YESSSSS!!! This is what I wanted ever since I started watching DotA a few years back! This will balance eSports so much, and never will somebody say "it's just the same boring **** over and over again."

You are definitely going to need your own team for League Play, it will be insufferable if not. The bombardment of noobs thinking they're the next best thing because they watched a few matches on MLGCOD on YouTube.